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Why? Why does it matter if someone’s a man or a woman as long as that someone is qualified for the position? Don’t get me wrong; I think it’s great that women are advancing in the political world, I just wonder why some people make such a big deal out of it.

Oh, Q, I don’t think it matters as long as someone is qualified for the position. Still, how many women do you see in national politics? Not that many. And that is not because there aren’t many qualified women out there…

It’s a big deal that women have come to the point where they are as qualified as men in the political sphere. I think it is a huge deal. Only one generation ago (my Mom) women weren’t equal in so many was. It’s about how far we have come… I’m not putting this right. It’s pretty hard to say…

What if you told women who strove and longed to be in politics that that it wasn’t a big deal that when the original Western hull of democracy’s cabinet was announced, half of them were women? How would Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul and Abigail Adams and Mary Wollstonecraft and Christine de Pizan and Betty Friedan feel knowing that a woman is Secretary of State and is almost the third in a row (except for Colin Powell)? Women have been oppressed for thousands of years, literally, and now that equality has become a goal (we are far from equal) of many, now that we have legal rights, we also have a chance to make our place in a history dominated by male rulers.